26 September, 2016

WikiLeaks offers award for #LabourLeaks

Wikileaks
offers £20,000 reward for #LabourLeaks with information on how the
Labour Party’s top officials have attempted to stop Jeremy Corbyn
becoming and staying on as leader

Wikileaks is
now moving on to the machinations of top officials in the UK Labour
Party to tilt the scales against the membership-elected leader Jeremy
Corbyn in favour of his challengers.

The first
leadership election saw Corbyn win by a landslide in September 2015.
Tens of thousands of people, assumed to be Corbyn supporters, were
purged from the party and were unable to vote. With the latest
leadership election, similar reports have surfaced, with over 3,000
members or supporters - assumed to be predominantly Corbyn supporters
- being refused the right to vote for the party leader. Over 1,500
are currently being investigated.

On top of
this, around one quarter (130,000) of the party membership were
disenfranchised when the party’s National Executive Committee
disallowed party members who had joined after 12 January 2016 from
voting in the leadership election. Like officials at the top of the
Democratic Party, those in the Labour Party apparatus are meant to be
neutral in the process of electing leadership candidates. But it is
clear this has not been the case. The scales are being tilted.